11 Responses to “Is there actually a joke here, or is today’s comic just a turkey?”

It’s just Tia Carmen being Tia Carmen. She’s always saying things like this that make no logical sense to anybody but her - it’s very similar, in fact, to another recent strip, where she’s talking to Baldo about one of her uncles (for those that don’t read, one of the regular bits is Tia Carmen telling stories about her family while showing Baldo or Gracie the family album).

I will admit that there were years when I pawed through the frozen carcasses looking for the “ideal” bird, but my objective was usually trying to find an appropriate weight (since you can hardly judge the quality of a bird wrapped in opaque white plastic). Unfortunately, the standard deviation of the weights of industrially produced fowl is extremely small. They all tended to be within a half-pound of the average.

Nevertheless, I heartily agree with Bill’s summation: this cartoon is definitely a turkey. That, however, is hardly an unusual occurrence for Baldo.

She has absolutely no idea what qualifies a turkey to be perfect, other than it must not be alive. The rejection of the other obviously dead turkeys was just on gut feelings, but now, forced to explain her motivations, the lack of life is the only thing she can say for sure.

The most baffling Baldo ever was this one, in which Baldo’s boss Mr. Rod expects Baldo to be happy that the lazy, incompetent employee Joey is getting promoted. (Mr. Rod’s motivations were never explained.)